Willis Museum & Sainsbury Gallery — Home Education Programme

📍 Market Place, Basingstoke, RG21 7QD

📅 Multi-week home education art courses in term time, typically Fridays 10.30am-12.30pm — check Hampshire Cultural Trust for current dates · Ages 10-14 years (varies by course)

Hampshire Cultural Trust's town museum in Basingstoke's historic Market Place runs termly multi-week home education art programmes led by an experienced artist-educator who is a former home educator. Recent blocks include a five-week course inspired by a Jane Austen exhibition (portrait drawing, watercolour, lettering, origami and simple embroidery) and a ten-week printmaking course (lino, gelli and screen printing), with all materials provided and time built in to socialise and play games. Around £40 for a five-session block with a sibling discount; accompanying parents go free and children aged 10+ can attend unaccompanied. Some sessions are on an upper floor reached by stairs, so check access when booking. Book via the Hampshire Cultural Trust website.